Word
الكاميرا التي في هاتفي جيدة، لكن الشاشة ليست كبيرة.
Meaning
The camera on my phone is good, but the screen is not big.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Lesson
Questions & Answers about الكاميرا التي في هاتفي جيدة، لكن الشاشة ليست كبيرة.
What does التي do here, and why is it التي instead of الذي?
التي is the relative pronoun meaning that / which for a feminine singular noun.
It refers back to الكاميرا, so it has to match that noun in gender and number.
- الذي = masculine singular
- التي = feminine singular
So:
- الكاميرا التي... = the camera that...
- not الكاميرا الذي...
Why is الكاميرا treated as feminine?
Because Arabic nouns have grammatical gender, and كاميرا is treated as feminine in Modern Standard Arabic.
That is why it takes feminine agreement:
- الكاميرا
- التي
- جيدة
Even though كاميرا does not end in ة, it is still feminine by usage.
What does هاتفي mean exactly, and what does the -ي mean?
هاتف means phone.
When you add -ي, it means my:
- هاتف = phone
- هاتفي = my phone